Senior / Principal Quantity Surveyor

Job description

**Company Description**

**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy.

We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

When you join a company that’s pioneering the future, your opportunities are unlimited.

By connecting the largest network of professional expertise in the industry, we’re finding new approaches and better answers to the toughest challenges.

And we want you to be a part of it.

**Job Description**

**The Opportunity**

Are you ready to take the next step in your career and deliver outstanding cost consultancy services to clients in the public and private sector?

If so, this exciting new Senior / Principal Quantity Surveyor role will give you the opportunity to put your career into high gear, challenge yourself, and fully leverage your cost management experience.

As a highly motivated Senior / Principal Quantity Surveyor, you will focus on delivering first principles estimating and risk management services to our key clients.

You will also be involved in the mentoring and career development of junior team members and contribute to succession planning and the overall structure of the team.

Opportunities are available in MEP, vertical and civil infrastructure.

Day to day, tasks will include:

+ Provision of cost estimates for a range of projects

+ Overseeing the preparation of quantities from a range of drawings with varying levels of detail

+ Cost advice at all stages of the design process and during projects

+ Post-contract cost management services, where required

+ Preparation and evaluation of Risk Registers

+ Delivering excellent service to clients in all aspects of a project life cycle

**Qualifications**

**About You**

You will be a natural team player who can demonstrate:

+ Minimum 7 years’ experience as a cost estimator / quantity surveyor / cost manager

+ Ability to establish and maintain excellent relationships with internal and external clients

+ Experience in the preparation of estimates from first principles

+ Commercial acumen and ability to mentor junior team members

+ Knowledge and experience of Cost Estimating and Quantity Surveying software such as: Cost X, Expert Estimation, @risk, P6

+ Operates with high standards of integrity

+ Excellent written and oral communication

+ Tertiary qualification in relevant discipline

+ Member of RICS or NZIQS would be advantageous

**Additional Information**

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work.

Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities.

We believe in leadership at all levels.

No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.

We also provide a robust global well-being program.

We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

**ReqID:** J10073104

**Business Line:** B&P - Buildings & Places

**Business Group:** DCS

**Strategic Business Unit:** ANZ

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